News - Great Meadows Foundation

May 29, 2018

Julie Leidner is first Kentucky artist selected for Great Meadows Foundation’s partnership with Residency Unlimited

GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION is pleased to announce a collaboration with RESIDENCY UNLIMITED (RU). An annual planned collaboration, this residency will allow a regional artist—each year chosen from a different part of Kentucky—to spend three months working at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York, supported by Great Meadows Foundation. This year, from a shortlist nominated by Louisville curators, RU Program Director Boshko Boskovic visited six artists and selected JULIE LEIDNER as Great Meadows Foundation’s inaugural resident. […]

May 29, 2018

Artist Professional Development Grant Awards April 2018

Great Meadows Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 13 grants to artists in the Kentucky region through the 7th round of the Artist Professional Development Grants. These grants will enable recipients to travel to visit major conferences, exhibitions, and artist residencies and to connect with professionals in the field whose expertise can help them develop their critical practice. Celebrating over $300,000.- in grants to Kentucky artists since June 2016 Since its inception in […]

January 8, 2018

Artist Professional Development Grant Awards January 2018

Great Meadows Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 17 grants to artists in the Kentucky region through the fifth round of the Artist Professional Development Grants program. Supporting artists from across the state, the grants will enable recipients to travel to visit major conferences, exhibitions, and visual art festivals, and to connect with professionals in the field whose expertise can help them develop their practice. Grantee artists in this cycle are: Jarrod Becker, […]

December 29, 2017

Inaugural Critic-in-Residence Program

Louisville, December 29, 2017 Great Meadows Foundation is pleased to announce the inauguration of its new Critic-in-Residence program and the selection of New York based curator Dan Cameron as the first Critic-in-Residence from February 1 until March 31, 2018. The Critic-in-Residence program will bring a noted contemporary art curator/critic to Kentucky once a year for a two month period. Contracted to visit artists in their studios and pay critical attention to the art scene in […]